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Despite Increased Visibility, Asian Americans Continue to Face Barriers in Academia

Insight Into Diversity

But I would say those are the exceptions, not the rules,” says Nicholas Hartlep, PhD, the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College, whose research focuses on race and equity — particularly concerning the experiences of Asian Americans — in academia. This article was published in our January/February 2024 issue.

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Trump's Jan. 6 legal adviser leads new law school

Inside Higher Ed

During the course of that tumultuous day, Trump made several calls to legal counsel—including to Mark Martin, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, who was then dean of Regent University School of Law and an informal Trump adviser. Instead, the press release cited higher education leaders who heaped praise on the incoming dean.

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Best law schools: US News is revising rankings after list dropouts

University Business

News is making changes to its 2023-2024 list. Yale University, which regularly lands at the top of the list, kicked off the exodus when law school Dean Heather K. After some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions dropped out of its best law schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report’s best law schools.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023 has been a year notable for its ups and downs on the higher education landscape with the elimination of affirmative action and the implosion of President Joe Biden’s student relief program. According to Roberts, mass debt cancellation was under the purview of Congress, not the Secretary of Education.

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Two top universities in Japan may merge

Inside Higher Ed

“The merging of these two universities will be very drastic and epoch-making in Japanese higher education if it happens,” he said. The fund will be opened to universities beginning in 2024, according to reports. Oberlin University. I am afraid this is the one bad symptom of this policy reform,” he said.

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HBCU Medical Schools Growing in Number

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

program, CDU provides greater opportunities to study medicine in a setting where the mission of the institution is the same — closing the gap,” said Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the founding dean for CDU’s new College of Medicine. The California Legislature awarded the university $50 million to support the new medical education program.

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30 Years After Its Release, Nathan McCall’s Makes Me Wanna Holler Still Resonates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I make this observation as a veteran Black journalist who has written for some of America’s top newspapers and magazines. As a 30-year veteran of the profession, I can attest that what Farrakhan and McCall said in the 1990s is as true in 2024 as it was back then. I’m afraid they are. which it still isn’t after all these years.

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